The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

The ice II the Fox river became damned
up against the railroad bridge at Appleton
lew days ago. and flooded residences on
the island foot deep.
new thing in the line OF hauling logs bv
steam is being successfully experienced
with near Republic. It consists of trac
ton engine. The engine rests on four
sleigh runners, each of fourteen-inch sur
face 1t has four drive wheels furnished
With teeth upon which steam can be kept
playing, keeping them hot, so they will set
into an ice road without tearing 1t up. 1t
has power estimated at 150-horse, and is
calculated to draw on an ordinary logging
road from eight to twelve sleds, each
loaded with from 1900 to 1900 feet Of logs
The speed with this load is about four
miles an hour.
The Chippewa Valley Hospital Com
pany's building at Eau Claire was burned
the other night with it's contents. Loss.
$4,000; insured.
The saw-mil of N. C. Foster, at Fair
child, Eau Claire County, was wiped out by
names few days ago. Loss, $4,000.
A Travelling Mems Club has been formed
at GAINESVILLE.
A loss of $4,000 was occasioned BIZ the
ASN~NAS EAfAh5 way VI Tic ll1l1-QSsAA Cll
Lower creek, near Eau Claire.
There died at the National Soldiers
Home in Milwaukee a few days ago an
old half-breed Indian named Baptiste La
Prairie, whose age was 1oS years The old
man had been notable character at the
home since his arrival there four years ago.
He was active in mind and body up to the
time OF his death, and was remarkably
well-kept man. He served in the war of
1872, and was in the employ of the Govern
ment as scout in nearly all the Indian wars
since that time He was with General Can
by in the Olive Grove massacre
Edmund Kenn was arrested for drunken
ness the other evening at Milwaukee, and
a few hours later voluntarily confessed
that he murdered Amelia Olsen in Chicago
in January, 1884 In his sober senses the
next morning Kenn rccanted his statement,
and claimed to know nothing of the trag-
edy.
General Lucius Fairchild, one of Wiscon-
SINS most famous soldiers, and at present
Grand Commander of the National En-
campment Grand Army If the Republic,
was rendered a brilliant reception the
other night by the Grand Army of the Re-
public posts of Milwaukee. Fully thou
sand people participated.
A solid bed of red hematite ore, said to
be as pure as any on the Gogebic range,
has been discovered at Wausau.
Marshall Ell. Parks, of Oconomowoc, a
clerk in the Interior Department at Wash
ington, persisted in the recent raj lway dis.
aster near Republic, o., but his remains
could not be identified.
Emanuel Whitman, one of the best-
1rranxxrY, rif IF loo
died suddenly few days ago at his home
in Elmo, Grant County, aged ninety years.
He was proprietor of the Junction House,
at that place, at the time of his death.
William Campbell, Il totally blind man
about sixty years old, and resident of Be-
lott for thirty years, committed suicide the
other night by taking strychnine. He was
a famous fisherman, and went to the river
ostensibly for the purpose of fishing. Pow
erty and loneliness drove him to his death
At Sparta, Monroe County, February s,
9 and 10, will be held the fifteenth annual
meeting of the State Dairymens Associa-
ton.
Charles Moffatt, travelling agent fol
Ellison Sc Son, of Milwaukee shot himself
dead at the Wyatt Hotel in Uniontown, Pa,
the other night. No cause was assigned
for the deed.
Colonel and Mrs. P. H. Van Setback cele
brated the anniversary of their fftietk
wedding at the residence of their daughter,
Mrs. John Winston, in GAINESVILLE, a few
days ago Letters were read from each
of the gGoomsmen and bridesmaids of fifty
years ago, when the wedding was consum-
mated in the town of Easton, Washington
County, N. Y.
FhO.To pnyNin nfS Iorry +1of how FoJ4
an earthquake shock few days ago. Build
ings were shaken and a noise like thunder
was heard
At the organization in GAINESVILLE recent
ly Of District No. 40 by the Southern Wis
consin Knights of Labor resolutions
were adopted favoring Mr.. Powderly's re-
cent actions and advocating the crushing
out of all Anarchistic societies.
T. o. Howe Post, Grand Army of the
Republic, of Green Bay, has come into pos
session of an interesting relic of the war,
being portions of a patchwork quilt sent
by the ladies of Green Bay early in 1865 to
the volunteers in the field
In the vicinity of Green Bay cedar ties
sell for twenty-five cents each-five cents
higher than last year.
Merrill Iincoln County, lumbermen
want the boom at that place enlarged. Its
present boomage capacity is 100000 feet,
while it is estimated that capacity for
100000,000 feet will be needed next year.
Explorations for coal and gas in the vi
entity of Kaukauna continue undated,
Notwithstanding the extreme cold, and the
several corporations become more and
more confident that they will meet with
success.
Among the several Claimants for S15.
1000 estate in Smithtown, L. l., are two
Milwaukee ladies-Mrs. George Fl. Daniels
and Mrs Frank Hughes-and Mrs. w. Fl.
Kimball, of of Green Bay.
Water in the river at Appleton is so low
that not drop of it has passed over the
dam since December l.
Nicholas Karich, mill-owner, died sud-
denly at GAINESVILLE the other day of para
lysi5.
A Chicago ST. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha passenger was ditched and
wrecked the other afternoon near Chetek,
Barron County. One person, railroad
employee, was injured.
It was recently reported by hunters that
moose had been found in the forests near
Florence.
Dexter E. Fay, the son of a former Boz
ton merchant, failing to receive assistance
from his relatives, pleaded guilty in Mil
waukee court recently to the charge of
robbing jeweler, and was sentenced to
three years. Imprisonment at hard labor
He stated that his crimes arose from pas
sion for gambling.
Beloit has professional one-legged
skater who has contested races with two
legged skaters. His name is Richard
Howe.
The Reliance machine works of E.. P.
Allis & Co., at Milwaukee, caught fire the
other night in the core-room of the
foundry department. The fire blazed
fercely for two hours, but was confined to
the foundry building, its progress being
stayed by fire wall. E. P. Allis, 5r., a
member of the firm, estimated the loss at
s250,0OO The works were covered by
blanket insurance policy of 100000. Three
hundred and fifty men were thrown out of
employment.
A Hartford washington County, farmer
recently sold twenty-four head of fine fat
cattle for 81 600.
It is now definitely settled that Brown
CoY7utv will hold a fair this wear AFT Green